{"id":2305,"date":"2026-07-25T15:21:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/the-backyard-silly-sprinkler-that-cracked-one-of-physics-biggest-puzzles\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T15:21:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:21:01","slug":"the-backyard-silly-sprinkler-that-cracked-one-of-physics-biggest-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/25\/the-backyard-silly-sprinkler-that-cracked-one-of-physics-biggest-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Backyard \u201cSilly Sprinkler\u201d That Cracked One of Physics\u2019 Biggest Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/the-backyard-silly-sprinkler-that-cracked-one-of-physics-biggest-puzzles\/\" title=\"The Backyard \u201cSilly Sprinkler\u201d That Cracked One of Physics\u2019 Biggest Puzzles\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"515\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Reverse-Sprinkler-777x515.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Reverse Sprinkler\" style=\"display: block;margin: auto;margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%\" \/><\/a>Quirky backyard sprinklers helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery about how flowing water makes objects spin. Every summer, lawns across the country come alive with \u201csilly sprinklers,\u201d colorful devices with looping and spiraling tubes that send water spraying in unexpected patterns. Although they may look like simple backyard toys, mathematicians have now used their unusual [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science, Space and Technology News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quirky backyard sprinklers helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery about how flowing water makes objects spin. Every summer, lawns across the country come alive with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}